> The same Lenovo people are recommending everywhere?
Lenovo laptops used to be awesome. I'm typing this on a T410 and I'd still recommend an old Lenovo laptop for lots of purposes. I've heard mostly bad things about their newer offerings.
Lenovo laptops used to be awesome. I'm typing this on a T410 and I'd still recommend an old Lenovo laptop for lots of purposes. I've heard mostly bad things about their newer offerings.
From the x230 onwards they have stupid chicklet keys, no visual representation of caps lock or numlock, bad trackpads, and 'modal' function keys - (visually represesented with LEDs of course). Abandoning traditional insert/delete/home/end/pgup/pgdn layout.
Superfish on thinkpads, this battery thing, this bios thing:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...
Very frustrating! Beyond a joke at this stage.
The plastic case seems a bit flimsy, but so far hasn't broken. And obviously having a shortscreen sucks, but I accepted that tradeoff for the LED backlight and better specs.
It is like using a cheap acer/toshiba laptop from Argos. A common question I have using them is 'where have the HW UX geniuses decided to put this button I want to use?'.
Cheap laptops are fine by me, but that's not what I want from a thinkpad.
The fact that there is a difference at all is the inherent superiority, a standard layout that stood the test of time and changed for the sake of saving a few pennies.
The fact that you would consider replacing it if it dies with an x220 keyboard (thanks for the info I didn't know that was possible) shows that you do mind it to a small extent.
The keyboard is a very common complaint: http://blog.the-compiler.org/?p=134 - also see the comments.
Also in addition to my prior whining about lenovo, their customer support and returns policy is nowhere near as good as IBM's was. A friend was sent the wrong laptop and after returning it & huge delays lenovo failed to source the correct laptop. He bought a dell.
Richard Sapper, the German industrial designer who orchestrated the look of the iconic laptop for IBM, died 83 years old. I'm blaming lenovo, he's probably spinning in his grave.
PgUp/PgDn are more my problem when switching back and forth to the T61, but I would probably fix that by remapping the T61. I don't see how Insert is that different between the two, but I'm not so picky with specific positioning because I don't "home row".
Don't worry, I'm also bitter about the erosion of Thinkpad - just not so much about the keyboard. The 1.75 inches of missing vertical screen real estate is a much bigger annoyance.
The L520 was the last I've owned that I'd describe as excellent; the others have been disappointing in various ways, especially the L530 that just fell apart in a little over a year of the same level of use that my L520 handled without issue.